November 2011
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Physics: The Large Hadron Collider may have... →
The Large Hadron Collider is constantly on the hunt for “new physics” — discoveries that confound and expand our current understanding of the universe…
Nov 18th
“OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW.”
– The final words of Steve Jobs as told by his sister, Mona Simpson in her amazing eulogy which she decided to publish. Since she gave this speech at the memorial service, there had been whispers about the words floating around. But they’re even better in full context. Read the entire piece.  (via...
Nov 1st
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September 2011
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Magnetic Fluid Pump With No Moving Parts →
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“We get the sacrifice, they get the wealth.”
– ‘We Get The Sacrifice, They Get The Wealth’: A Fired-Up Pelosi Tears Into GOP Deficit Plan | TPMDC
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April 2011
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Feature: A shiny new ornament for your Linux lawn:... →
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March 2011
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“Pixar developed a process to engineer art. Apple developed a process to make an...”
– Horace Dediu (via chartier)
Mar 26th
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“RIM has two CEOs and three COOs. Why is anyone expecting straight answers from a...”
– Apple Outsider » I Told You RIM Was in Trouble (via chartier)
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February 2011
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New study on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
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Feature: Black ops: how HBGary wrote backdoors for... →
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Cell-based flu shot beats current vaccine →
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Uncontacted Tribes
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“Here we have the man who invented the personal computer, then the laptop. He’s...”
– Rupert Murdoch on Steve Jobs. (via nikf)
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Physicists scale up invisibility cloaks using... →
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January 2011
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HOWTO make health-care cheaper by spending more on... →
Jan 30th
Genetic code deciphered for form of pancreatic... →
(PhysOrg.com) — Scientists at Johns Hopkins have deciphered the genetic code for a type of pancreatic cancer called neuroendocrine or islet cell tumors. The work, described online in the Jan. 20 issue of Science Express, shows that patients whose tumors have certain coding “mistakes” live twice as long as those without them.
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If you were given a brand new yacht, what would...
Pixel, the cat from “The Cat Who Walks Through Walls” by Robert Heinlein Ask me anything
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“We either live together, or we die together”
– Thousands of Egyptian Muslims Show Up as “Human Shields” to Defend Coptic Christians From Terorism
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Researchers print solar cells on toilet paper, other delicate materials (w/ Video)
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“We discovered that benign cancer cells produce the PML molecule and display...”
– Scientists now know why some cancers become malignant and others don’t
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